- August 21, 20221-Node ClickHouse in Production
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
- January 20, 2022Panelbear is joining forces with Cronitor!
This is the story of how we got to know each other and how we ended up merging our bootstrapped companies.
- May 19, 2021Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi
I’ll be walking you step by step on how I built a bare-metal, 3-node Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pi. I'll also share some tips and tricks I learned along the way.
- April 7, 2021The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a low-stress, one-person company that I run from my flat here in Germany.
- March 31, 2021Why I Run Django on Kubernetes as a One-Man SaaS
When it comes to choice of tools there’s no holy grail, and there will always be tradeoffs to be made. This helped me recognize that I must decide for myself which pain points I care about, and which ones I’m willing to let go.
- January 16, 2021Why I Didn't Open-Source My Second SaaS
I learned that nothing makes people disappear faster from a GitHub thread than asking them if they want to contribute the code changes themselves.
- November 22, 2020The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming languages to open source libraries to Kubernetes tools for easy deployments.
- November 10, 2020On Choosing Boring Technology
Why Panelbear started as an embarrassingly simple Django app and all data was stored on a SQLite database.